“…In today's Uganda, patterns of citizenship are manifested in phenomena of upfront contestation and mobilisation of popular opposition figures, but also in mundane day‐to‐day life where issues of common concern are addressed together, at the micro, meso, and macro levels (Holma & Kontinen, 2020). Likewise other low‐income country contexts (Plagerson et al, 2012), definitions and experiences of citizenship are embedded in multifaceted boundaries between individual and collective identities (Thompson & Tapscott, 2011), emerging from particular historical contingencies and spatialities, and moulded by factors such as ethnicity and gender, among others (Alava et al, 2019). Comparably to the rest of Sub‐Saharan Africa, furthermore, the recent expansions in social protection are increasingly shaping (and being shaped by) the social contract (Cloutier et al, 2021).…”